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| 1986-07-23 | Reconsider Manion Nomination | Rejected (49-49) |
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| Byrd (D-WV) motion to reconsider the June 26 vote to confirm Daniel A. Manion of Indiana to be U.S. circuit judge for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The motion failed, with Vice-President Bush casting the tie-breaking vote. | |||||
| 1986-08-01 | Prohibit AIDS Testing [HJRES668] | Failed (41-53) |
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| Mathias (R-MD) motion to table (kill) the Helms (R-NC) amendment to the Finance Committee amendment, to disapprove the District of Columbia law banning "discrimination" by insurance companies against persons testing positive for the virus causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The Helms amendment was subsequently adopted by voice vote. | |||||
| 1986-08-05 | Limit SDI Research & Funding [S2638] | Rejected (49-50) |
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| Exon (D-NE) amendment to provide a limit of $3.56 billion for research and development on the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars" program. President Reagan had requested $5.3 billion. | |||||
| 1986-08-07 | Chemical Weapons Funding [S2638] | Rejected (50-50) |
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| Pryor (D-AR) amendment to delete funds for the production of binary chemical weapons. Vice-President George Bush cast the tie-breaking vote to defeat the amendment. | |||||
| 1986-08-08 | Anti-Satellite Missile Testing [S2638] | Agreed To (55-43) |
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| Warner (R-VA) motion to table (kill) the Kerry (D-MA) amendment to bar tests against a target in space of the anti-satellite (ASAT) missile providing the Soviet Union conducts no ASAT tests. | |||||
| 1986-08-08 | Midgetman / MX Survivability [S2638] | Agreed To (64-30) |
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| Cohen (R-ME) motion to table (kill) the Wilson (R-CA) amendment to bar use of funds for full-scale development of a small mobile intercontinental ballistic missile or for deployment of more than 50 MX missiles unless the Secretary of Defense certifies that the small missile and the MX would be able to survive an enemy attack and that it would cost more for an enemy to nullify them than it would to build them. | |||||
| 1986-08-13 | Contra Aid [HR5052] | Passed (59-41) |
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| Passage of the bill to appropriate $8.2 billion in fiscal 1987 for military construction programs of the Defense Department, to provide $100 million in military and non-military aid to the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters, and to provide $300 million in economic aid to the countries of Central America. | |||||
| 1986-09-16 | D.C. Abortions [HR5175] | Agreed To (48-42) |
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| Appropriations Committee amendment to prohibit federal funds in the bill from being used for abortions, except when the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in cases of rape and incest. The committee amendment weakened the original language in the bill, which would have prohibited any funds in the bill -- federal or district -- from being used for abortions except in cases endangering the mother's life. | |||||
| 1986-09-17 | Rehnquist Nomination | Confirmed (65-33) |
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| Vote on the confirmation of President Reagan's nomination of Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of Virginia to be Chief Justice of the United States. | |||||
| 1986-09-23 | 65 MPH Speed Limit [S2405] | Agreed To (56-36) |
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| Symms (R-ID) amendment to allow states to raise the speed limit to 65 mph on rural interstate highways outside urbanized areas with populations of 50,000 or more. | |||||
| 1986-09-23 | Davis-Bacon Exemptions [S2405] | Agreed To (49-46) |
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| Symms (R-ID) amendment to increase from $2,000 to $250,000 the minimum value of contracts covered by the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which requires contractors to pay the local prevailing wage on federal construciton projects. | |||||
| 1986-10-02 | South Africa Sanctions [HR4868] | Veto Overridden (78-21) |
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| Passage, over President Reagan's Sept. 26 veto, of the bill to impose punitive economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa. Among the sanctions imposed by the bill were bans on imports of South African iron, steel, sugar and other agricultural products. The bill also prohibited exports to South Africa of petroleum products, banned new U.S. investments there, and banned imports of South African uranium, coal and textiles. | |||||
| 1986-10-03 | Superfund [HR2005] | Agreed To (88-8) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the bill to reauthorize the "Superfund" hazardous-waste cleanup program for fiscal 1987-91 at a funding level of $8.5 billion, and to establish a new program for cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks at $500,000. | |||||
| 1986-10-15 | Death Penalty [HR5484] | Rejected (58-38) |
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| Dole (R-KS) motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the Dole motion to concur in the House amendment to authorize $1.7 billion for drug interdiction, eradication, education and treatment efforts, and to increase penalties for certain drug offenses, with an amendment to make several modest changes from the House amendment. Opponents of the death penalty had refused to allow a vote on the bill until that provision was removed. | |||||
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"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |